One Killed as Blast Rocks French Chemistry School
A large explosion rocked a chemistry school in eastern France on Friday, killing a professor and injuring another person, authorities said. About 10 people were unaccounted for.
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A large explosion rocked a chemistry school in eastern France on Friday, killing a professor and injuring another person, authorities said. About 10 people were unaccounted for.
One British and two Canadian peace activists held hostage in Iraq have been freed in an operation by multinational forces. Norman Kember, 74, of Pinner, north-west London, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, were three of four men seized in Baghdad in N
Police sealed off the front gates of the White House and took a man into custody over a suspicious package left outside. President George W.
A fire has broken out at a waste disposal facility at a nuclear plant in western Japan's Fukui Prefecture. Two people were taken to hospital after inhaling smoke during the incident at the plant in Ohi run by Kansai Electric Power Co (Kepco).
The Basque separatist group Eta declared a permanent ceasefire, according to reports on Basque radio. The group has been fighting for independence for the Basque region of northern Spain and south-west France for nearly four decades.
The opposition in Belarus says four leading activists have been arrested by police in Minsk during a protest against the election result. Opposition supporters defied police and braved sub-zero temperatures overnight, camping out in a central square.
A mighty cyclone, the worst in more than 30 years, has hit Australia's Queensland northeast coast. It flattened houses and cut power in the tourist region that has the Great Barrier Reef off its coast.
President Alexander Lukashenko has apparently won an overwhelming majority of votes in the presidential election in Belarus. Preliminary official results show Lukashenko, who is seeking a third term, won re-election with 82.
A quake measuring 4 on the Richter scale has rocked Romania's highly seismic region of Vrancea on Sunday, media said. Initial reports mentioned no casualties or damages.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is much likely to stay for a third term, exit polls for Sunday's elections showed. The President, who has faced much criticism from the West for his human right practices, garnered nearly 85%, reports said.
An elderly Indian and four of his children were beheaded in public for "withcraft." World media said Sunday that workers in a tea plantation lynched the 60-year-old and four kids, while the man's pregnant wife managed to escape.
Two British men have been jailed for six years in India for sexually abusing boys at a homeless children's shelter in Bombay. Allan Waters, 58, and Duncan Grant, 61, were also fined USD 35 000 each.
Two earthquakes measuring respectively 4.5 and 3.
The former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was not poisoned, according to the UN War Crimes tribunal. The announcement came on the second day that Serbians were filing past his coffin in Belgrade.
Protests have turned violent in France after at least 250,000 people rallied against a controversial new labour law. The worst violence erupted in Paris, where riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas.
The heavily pregnant Katie Holmes and her man Tom Cruise have reportedly taken part in a ceremony involving rings on a ship. According to The Sun, the couple exchanged scientology rings aboard a ship with fellow scientologists John Travolta and Kelly Pres
Hundreds of Slobodan Milosevic's supporters lined up on Thursday to pay their last respects to the late Serbian leader, who died while being tried for war crimes. Milosevic's body returned home on Wednesday.
The Czech Republic has passed a law in favour of gay partnerships this week. The law will give gay couples rights to inherit a partner's property and raise children.
Romania's former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase resigned Wednesday from his positions of Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies and head of the country's leading opposition Social Democratic Party. A day earlier the party leaders voted 37-16 against Nastase af
Danes have found their first case of H5 bird flu, news agencies broke on Wednesday. The virus was found in wild fowl, but it was not immediately clear whether that was a H5N1 case.
Bank Austria Creditanstalt is to start overseeing all units of Italian Unicredito Italiano SpA in Central and Eastern Europe, excluding Poland. The move will come under an agreement that the Italian banking group expects to conclude in the short term.
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